LICENSURE

Admitted to Missouri Bar- September 2002; Missouri Bar No.: 52142

Admitted to Kansas Bar- April 2003; Kansas Bar No.: 21049

EXPERIENCE

                        Baty, Holm & Numrich & Otto, PC

                        Kansas City, Missouri, April 2005- 2019

Partner

• Handle full range of litigation matters including personal injury, products liability, workers compensation and construction defects
• Represent insureds through personal lines and commercial general liability policies
• Experienced in litigating motor vehicle claims, product liability, construction defects, premises liability and workers compensation claims
• Provide counsel to corporate clients on business formation, EEOC claims, employment issues, stock acquisitions, operating agreements and creation of employee handbooks

• Provide insurance coverage opinions, provide coverage defenses to insurance companies
• Successfully mediate and negotiate settlement of complex claims
• Trial and appellate experience
• Superlawyers Rising Star 2011-2018
• Martindale-Hubbell AV rating

Boyd & Kenter, PC

Kansas City, Missouri, April 2004- April 2005

                        Associate

• Represent Claimants in workers’ compensation proceedings
• Duties included client development, discovery, claims development, mediation, trial, appeals, supervising staff and client relations

Missouri Attorney General’s Office

Assistant Attorney General, August 2002- April 2004

Labor Division– Kansas City, Missouri

• Represented the Missouri Second Injury Fund in workers’ compensation proceedings at the Division of Workers’ Compensation, the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission and the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District
• Extensive trial, deposition and discovery experience
• Carried caseload of approximately 1000 cases

Governmental Affairs Division– Jefferson City, Missouri

• Served as general counsel to the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, and Landscape Architects; the Missouri Board of Barber Examiners; and the Missouri Office of Athletics
• Represented state licensing boards in disciplinary actions at the Administrative Hearing Commission and before licensing boards
• Represented the Department of Mental Health in Circuit Court actions
• Represented the Director of Revenue in DWI revocation appeals at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District

Cochran, Oswald, McDonald, Roam, Moore, P.C.

Blue Springs, Missouri, August 2001- May 2002

Law Clerk

• Legal Research– Criminal, Civil, Corporate and Tax
• Case Development

EDUCATION

University of Missouri Kansas City– School of Law; Kansas City, Missouri; Juris Doctor, May 2002

• Dean’s List
• International Law Society, Secretary
• International Legal Studies– Ireland, Summer 2000 (University College Dublin; Magee College, Derry)

Drury College; Springfield, Missouri; Bachelor of Arts, 1999

School of Liberal Arts, English Major

AFFILIATIONS

Missouri Bar Association

Kansas Bar Association

Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association – Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court

Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers